We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

Light is the shadow of God.

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read may read our natures.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

There is musick, even in the beauty and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument.

Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.

I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"

Do you think everybody misses somebody? Like I miss my mama?” “Mmmm-hmmm,” said Gloria. She closed her eyes. “I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.

One day you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.

The YouTube video maker gets more out of making a video than you get out of watching it.

In my heart I know what kind of person I am, and that's good enough.